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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】On Her Own【電子書籍】[ Wanda E. Brunstetter ]

＜p＞Barbara Zook was devastated when her husband David was killed. Will she be able to raise their four young boys and manage her beloved David's harness store on her own? When harness maker Paul Hilty arrives in Webster County, Missouri, he finds himself agreeing to help run Barbara's shop. Things are going fairly well until widower Bishop John Frey comes a-courting Barbara, and Paul's jealousy takes everyone by surprise. Will Paul try to beat out the competition or end up hightailing it back to Pennsylvania? Will Barbara marry for love or be forced to enter into a marriage of convenience? On Her Own is book 2 in The Brides of Webster County series. Other books in the series include Going Home: Book 1, Dear to Me: Book 3, Allison's Journey: Book 4.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Blue Jackets- The Log of the Teaser【電子書籍】[ George Manville Fenn ]

＜p＞Blue Jackets- The Log of the Teaser＜br /＞ George Manville Fenn, english novelist, journalist, editor and educationalist (1831-1909)＜/p＞ ＜p＞This ebook presents ≪Blue Jackets- The Log of the Teaser≫, from George Manville Fenn. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Table of Contents＜br /＞ -01- About this book＜br /＞ -02- WE JOLLY SAILOR BOYS＜br /＞ -03- A PIECE OF CHINA＜br /＞ -04- CUTTING IT CLOSE＜br /＞ -05- DOUBLE ALLOWANCE＜br /＞ -06- CHING HAS IDEAS＜br /＞ -07- MY FIRST HORROR＜br /＞ -08- BEING PRIMED＜br /＞ -09- MY PLAN＜br /＞ -10- PREPARATIONS＜br /＞ -11- THE ENEMY＜br /＞ -12- THE FIGHT＜br /＞ -13- REPAIRING DAMAGES＜br /＞ -14- A WILD-BEASTS’ CAGE＜br /＞ -15- THE SEQUEL＜br /＞ -16- A DISAPPOINTMENT＜br /＞ -17- AN INTERVIEW＜br /＞ -18- WE LOSE OUR PRISONERS＜br /＞ -19- IN A TRAP＜br /＞ -20- UP THE RIVER＜br /＞ -21- AFTER THE FIGHT＜br /＞ -22- IN THE CREEK＜br /＞ -23- FRESH DANGER＜br /＞ -24- SAVED＜br /＞ -25- A SURPRISE＜br /＞ -26- THE ENTERTAINMENT＜br /＞ -27- MAN OVERBOARD＜br /＞ -28- A SURPRISE＜br /＞ -29- CHING HAS A NOTE＜br /＞ -30- A QUEER QUARREL＜br /＞ -31- A FRESH START＜br /＞ -32- GETTING WARM＜br /＞ -33- A STARTLING＜br /＞ -34- AN EXCHANGE＜br /＞ -35- THE UNTRUSTWORTHY AGENT＜br /＞ -36- MR BROOKE’S ERROR＜br /＞ -37- REST AND REFRESHMENT＜br /＞ -38- JACK ASHORE＜br /＞ -39- INFORMATION＜br /＞ -40- TRICKED＜br /＞ -41- ANOTHER ENEMY＜br /＞ -42- AFTER THE TYPHOON＜br /＞ -43- FOR DEAR LIFE＜br /＞ -44- OUR REFUGE＜br /＞ -45- WITHIN AN ACE＜br /＞ -46- HUZZA＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A Gift to my Children A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing【電子書籍】[ Jim Rogers ]

＜p＞When I was a boy, my father often pulled me aside to convey lessons intended to build what we generally refer to as "character". Often his advice was very simple ー work hard, think for yourself, do right by others ー but I believe those lessons provided the foundation for everything that has followed in my life. Now that I'm a dad myself, I wanted to put them down in one place, with examples of my own experiences, as a guide to life, adventure, and investing, both for my young daughters and for anyone seeking success in his or her chosen field. I hope that parents will be inspired to give this book to their children, and vice versa, as many of the lessons that I have learned apply not just to young people but to all adultsーfor example, question everything, never follow the crowd, and beware of boys!＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞What a lovely, lovely book! Though I've read all you've written, this one really touched me. It is, of course, a love letter to your daughters, which is not only a wonderful, meaningful thing to do, but it was filled with exactly the kind of advice all fathers should give. Your new book will stay on my shelf for a long, long time, and I'll be giving it to my own kids to read.＜/em＞＜br /＞ --＜strong＞Nicholas Sparks＜/strong＞, author of ＜em＞The Notebook, Dear John＜/em＞, and ＜em＞The Last Song＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Brothers The True History of a Fight Against Odds【電子書籍】[ Horace Annesley Vachell ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Example in this ebook＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Mark Samphire clutched tightly his mother's hand, as the big room began to fill with people. Some he knew, and these he feared: because they might speak to him, and then he would stammer, and choke, and make a piteous spectacle of himself. He wished that he were his brother, Archibald, standing on the other side of his mother, Archie, the pink-skinned and golden-haired, a tremendous fellow clad in a new sailor suit, and tolerably self-possessed, but pinker than usual, because a lady in lavender silk had hugged him and called him "a darling." Nobody called Mark a darling except his mother, and that only when they were alone. The fat butler kept shouting out more names. Mrs. Corrance and Jim arrived. Mark hoped they would sit near him. Jim was his own ageーa ripe sevenーand a sworn friend. Lord Randolph talked to Admiral Kirtling, the funny man who made everybody laugh. Ah! Jim had pushed his way through the crowd. In a minute the two boys were whispering together, nineteen to the dozen, for Mark seldom stammered when he talked to Jim.＜br /＞ An older person than Mark would have seen on the faces of the assembled company an air of expectation. Big folding-doors, now shut, divided the drawing-room from the library. Upon these the eyes of the women lingered, for behind them stood mystery andーso it was reportedーbeauty! Meantime they chattered, talking for the most part about the house, newly built, and well named The Whim. Miss Selina Lamb, one of the Lambs from Cranberry-Orcas, who had so many relations that she was never out of half-mourning, gave information to the Dean of Westchester.＜br /＞ "I assure you, Mr. Dean, that it is a fact. The dear Admiral got into a fly at Westchesterーhe carried nothing but a white umbrella, and told the man, Thomas Pinnick, who has driven me a score of times, to take him to 'some salubrious locality.' Thomas, quite properly, drove him here across the downs. The west wind was blowing strongly, and the dear man thought he was in the chopsーit is chops, isn't it?ーyes, in the chops of the Channel. He gave Thomas Pinnick a sovereign, and bought this hill within the week. Now he has built this remarkable house."＜br /＞ The Dean smiled, admitting that the house might be described as remarkable. Bedrooms covered the ground floor; above these the sitting-rooms commanded a fine view of the pastoral county of Slowshire; at the top of the house were the kitchen and servants' offices!＜br /＞ "I understand," said Mr. Dean, "that food descends like manna from above, and that the common odours of leek and cabbage ascend, and are smelled of none, save perhaps the skylarks."＜br /＞ "You always put things so poetically," murmured Miss Lamb. "Yes, you are right. The still-room is just above the library."＜br /＞ "Where it should be, my dear Miss Lamb. I hope the Admiral's housekeeper wears list slippers."＜br /＞ Miss Lamb, sensible that the Dean was making a joke which she could not quite understand, smiled, showing large even teeth, and asked if Mr. Dean had ever met the young lady in whose honour they had gathered together. Mr. Dean had not met the young lady, but he had known, intimately, her mother. Miss Lamb blushed.＜br /＞ "She was charming," murmured the Dean absently, "the most fascinating creature."＜br /＞ The spinster sniffed her surprise, reflecting that her companion was a radical. A true blue, the bishop, for instance, would not have mentioned the mother at all. She felt it her duty to bleat a feeble protest.＜br /＞ "She behaved so shockingly, Mr. Dean."＜br /＞ "True, true, but she was very young, Miss Lamb. Poor, pretty creature! And nowーdead!"＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞To be continue in this ebook................................................................................................................＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Four First Kisses: An Echo Across Time Short Story (Echo Saga)【電子書籍】[ Skye Genaro ]

＜p＞Dear Readers:＜br /＞ This short story revisits characters from Echo Across Time, the first book in the Echo Saga. Even if you haven't read the book, you will still enjoy this short story.＜br /＞ In Echo Across Time, Echo promises she'll give Becca a ride to McKyla's party, but when Echo doesn't show up, Becca goes without her. What choice does she have? Lucas is going to be there, and Becca is convinced this is the night they'll kiss for the first time. But as she gets closer to the big moment, boys she used to date are popping up everywhere, and her plans are nearly derailed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞***************＜/p＞ ＜p＞Recommended for readers who love teen paranormal romance, and elements of supernatural, science fiction, fantasy, magic, telekinesis, psychic, manifesting, mystery, metaphysical and visionary, action and adventure, conspiracy theories, thriller, coming of age, dating, high school, series, time travel, new age, transformation, mystics, mysticism, strong female protagonist.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Dark Kin【電子書籍】[ Daniel James Miller ]

＜p＞Ellie Reed generally enjoyed being a journalist in the midwestern town in which she'd grown up. Living in the picturesque rural community, with its chatty and friendly neighbors, made for a setting where Ellie felt a genuine sense of both belonging and purpose for her young family. One would think that knowing the lay of the land and most of the folks in the area would be pretty handy resources for a news reporter to have at her disposal. And they might be...if she wasn't also a werewolf. Big secrets were hard to keep in a small town.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Being a widow, a full-time reporter and a werewolf were challenges in and of themselves, but none could compare to her toughest and most important responsibility; that of raising twin boys who were rapidly approaching their own very first Change, as the children were destined to become Shifters as well. Thankfully, she wasn't entirely alone in the mix. Even in the close-knit lakeside community other Shifters could be found living quietly, secretively alongside the more mundane members of society. Friends, both Shifter and human, help Ellie shoulder the burden of walking in two worlds. But to her, the juggling act was more than worth it. This was where she wanted her boys to grow up, where the preternatural and everyday could coexist.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But no community, no matter how special or insular it may be, is ever immune from terror. There were some monsters that could even scare the things that go bump in the night. Ancient malevolences. Truest and darkest evil. And it will take efforts on the part of both her communities to defend the people and place they hold most dear, as well as sacrifice.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ellie will do what she must to make sure her boys were safe. They were her heart and her future. But did they have to start noticing girls now? Really??? Their timing could not possibly be worse.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Let's Pretend We're Normal Adventures in Rediscovering How to Be a Family【電子書籍】[ Tricia Lott Williford ]

＜p＞＜strong＞“Oh, my word, I’m living this.”＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dear friend,＜/p＞ ＜p＞If you and I are new to each other, let me start here: ＜em＞This is not how this was supposed to go!＜/em＞ In the portrait I had long ago painted of my family, I didn’t intend to include words like “widowed single mom.” I had envisioned many more decades with my husband Robb in the complicated, beautiful life of marriage. But in the course of twelve hours, our family of four became a trio, and since that day my boys and I have been creating a new life in an upside-down world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I have written this new book, which in a lot of ways is a sequel to ＜em＞And Life Comes Back,＜/em＞ to answer the question so many have asked: “And then what happenedーafter the crisis became reality and your life began again?” I’ve leaned into honest storytelling to offer a look into the chaos and beauty of who we have become.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I’ll be honest, this book was harder to write because I’m living it right nowーI hardly feel like an expert who has figured it out. I hope my straight-up-honest stories will give you encouragement to take the next step. And the next. And the next.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sometimes, you just have to pretend you know what you’re doing, pretend you’re brave enough, and pretend you can do this. Sometimes you just have to pretend you’re normal until the new normal finds you.＜/p＞ ＜p＞See you in the pages,＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tricia＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Captured Heart【電子書籍】[ Beverly Rae ]

＜p＞A chance to win money. A chance to find love. But only one can be claimed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dear Ms. Pierce,＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is your opportunity to fulfill all your dreams.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Do you yearn to capture a man’s heart and have him capture yours? Do you dare to find a man who will treat you to your deepest desires, awaken your heart, and claim you for his own? Are you strong enough to find an extraordinary man?＜br /＞ If so, read on…＜/p＞ ＜p＞Erin Pierce and her two closest girlfriends seek adventure and love. After each receives an invitation to enter The Claiming Games, they travel to Fang’s Bar and Grill, ready to take on the challenge of a lifetime. When they arrive, they’re greeted by the amazing, sexy men of The Kings of Beasts MC. But these men have a dark side. They’re bad boys with fangs and claws.＜/p＞ ＜p＞If Erin survives the games, she has a choice to make. Claim $250,000 in prize money or the man of her dreams. But Erin doesn’t believe in dreams coming true. She has a terrible secret, one she believes will send a man running, destroying any chance at love.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Erin meets Colter Quaid, she has no idea that his secret is just as shocking as her own. Can they forget their terrible pasts? Or will Erin survive the challenge only to lose her future?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Enter The Claiming Games and find out.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Captured Heart includes a wild hike through the woods, men who love motorcycles and strong women, a hero with fangs and claws, and a girl coming of age while dealing with an unrelenting past.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Please note: Intended for adults only, 18+＜/p＞ ＜p＞THE CAGE HEART (The Claiming Games 2) - Coming September 2014＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Mark The Callahan Brothers Trilogy, Book 3【電子書籍】[ Emily March ]

＜p＞＜strong＞They are the Bad Boys of Brazos BendーMatthew, Mark, Luke, and John Callahan.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author Emily March invites readers to travel from Eternity Springs to Brazos Bend, the small hometown of the Callahan brothers snuggled deep in the heart of Texas.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Members of Mark Callahan’s old military unit are being murdered. To discover who’s responsible and why, the former intelligence officer must partner with the only team member more dangerous than he is…Annabelle Monroe, his ex-wife.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now a private investigator, Annabelle would rather trade her pistol for a slingshot than work with Mark again. But a shattered heart is no excuse to avoid a reunion when lives are at stake.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Together, she and Mark go hunting a killer. Long days and steamy nights make it impossible to deny the desire still burning between them, but the reasons for their messy breakup haven’t changed. The bravest man she has ever known is still afraid to risk his heart.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But when the killer’s trail leads to Brazos Bend and everything Mark holds dear is at stake, will he finally take the leap? Or will it be too late?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Adventures of Ginger Mclean【電子書籍】[ Amy Hodgins ]

＜p＞Dear Reader,＜/p＞ ＜p＞This book is all about me and the cruel world that I inhabit.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ever since the reception class, I’ve stood out. I’d like to think this was because I am exceptionally funny, clever and stylish, but others say that it’s down to my CRAZY hair and big mouth. Whatever it is, I am definitely not to blame.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A LOT of people are jealous of me and that is why going to high school will be brilliant. I will meet much better people there who don’t wear pink leg warmers and glitter.＜/p＞ ＜p＞If it wasn’t for my best friend Frances and my she-hamster, Trevor, I don’t know how I’d put up with the madness. Frances gets me, even if she still wants to play princesses-get-chased-by-witch, and that’s a lot more than I can say for my stupid parents who insist on ruining my life with their stupid feuds.＜/p＞ ＜p＞If only I can stop being such a loser whenever Milo Costigan is around, perhaps it’ll all work out okay…＜/p＞ ＜p＞See you on the other side,＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞Ginger Mclean＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Great fun＜/strong＞… I can just about remember going from primary school to secondary school and there are lots of moments in this book that made me laugh at similar things that happened to me at that age!! A perfect book for pre-teens and teenage girls ? I will be getting a copy for my cousin Amelia who’s 10.＜br /＞ - Keeley Edge＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞A really good book＜/strong＞… you want to know what happens next. A very suitable read for a young lady ? 10 to 14 years, I would think.＜br /＞ - Anne May＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Loved this book＜/strong＞, it brought back memories of of how being that age came with so many ‘problems’. It is written in a style that children will love and I am sure they will relate to Ginger well as I did.＜br /＞ -dawnydeedee＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞I’m not sure how much I should’ve enjoyed reading Ginger, as a 30 year old bloke＜/strong＞, but I was hooked from the beginning and can’t wait to see what’s in store in the next episode….! Great, easy read with lots of laugh out loud moments.＜br /＞ -Ben Allchin＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Smashing book for both boys and girls＜/strong＞. My son loved it. A sequel would be good…＜br /＞ in time for Christmas!＜br /＞ -RGS ‘Ruth’＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Luke The Callahan Brothers Trilogy, Book 1【電子書籍】[ Emily March ]

＜p＞＜strong＞They are the Bad Boys of Brazos BendーMatthew, Mark, Luke, and John Callahan.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author Emily March invites readers to travel from Eternity Springs to Brazos Bend, the small hometown of the Callahan brothers snuggled deep in the heart of Texas＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞DEA agent Luke Callahan has suffered one loss too many and a fishing trip with his brothers is just what his broken spirit needs to heal. What he doesn’t need is a gorgeous stowaway harboring secrets and running from killers. Never mind that he does his best work undercover…＜/p＞ ＜p＞Maddie Kincaid is accustomed to trouble, but she’d hoped to leave it behind when she settled in peaceful Brazos Bend. Who would have guessed that helping a gentle old man would land her in the middle of an attempted murderーher own? Now she’s running for her lifeーstraight into the arms of the infamous Luke Callahan.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lucky for her, he’s deadlier than the men chasing her. Unfortunately for him, protecting her means breaking a vow he holds dear. When the nights heat up and the secrets start to spill, Luke faces a brand new dangerーlosing the woman he loves. What’s a mad, bad, and lethal Callahan man gonna do?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Momentum Is Your Friend The Metal Cowboy and His Pint-Sized Posse Take on America【電子書籍】[ Joe Kurmaskie ]

＜p＞＜strong＞“A reader’s trifecta: a humorous travelogue, a stirring adventure tale, and a touching family story.”＜/strong＞ ーBart King, author of ＜em＞The Big Book of Boy Stuff＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Most people bring their inner child on an epic adventure. Joe “Metal Cowboy” Kurmaskie actually took his two kids along. For a 4,000-mile bicycle ride across America, Joe’s seven-year-old son, Quinn, rides a tagalong bike attached to his dad’s; and behind that is five-year-old Enzo in a bike trailer.＜br＞ Our hero the Metal Cowboy answers the question “What are you, crazy?” with a resounding and cheerful “Yes.”＜br＞ Unassistedーwith no support crew except his boys’ comic relief and the periodic kindness of strangersーhe pedals hundreds of pounds of gear and offspring over mountain passes, across the wide plains, through thunderstorms, and into the heart of what it means to be a dad.＜br＞ Along the way they encounter everything that makes up Americaーsmall-town kindness and inner-city heart, wild horses and highway roadkill, a?bitter Vietnam vet and a hopeful young inventor, grizzly bears and bison roaming free, cyclists and monstrous RVs, a very peppy cheerleader and a visitation from the ghost of the author’s father, horrible traffic and serene dirt roads, a monastery and a distillery, baseball, and yes, lots of pie.＜br＞ By the time they reach Washington, DC, two months after leaving Portland, Oregon, they’ve bonded in a rare way. Kurmaskie writes, “We share a secret, the three of us; one permanent summer in our hearts now, where we’re never apart.”＜br＞ ＜br＞ ______________________________＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜br＞ ＜strong＞Praise for MOMENTUM?IS?YOUR?FRIEND＜/strong＞＜br＞ ＜br＞ “Give Huck Finn a bicycle, give Lance Armstrong a sense of humor and give Jack Kerouac a good editor and you have Joe Kurmaskie’s latest road trip. Hilarious. A one-of-a-kind voice in the travel world.”＜br＞ ーTom Lang, author of ＜em＞Coffee, Cat, ＜/em＞and ＜em＞Mrs. Claus＜/em＞＜br＞ ＜br＞ “A witty, whacky, and pensive midlife adventure with the Metal Cowboy and his two sidekicks. Joe rode the sort of miles we all wish we had. A highly entertaining read.”＜br＞ ーAndrew Pham, author of ＜em＞Catfish and Mandala＜/em＞＜br＞ ＜br＞ “Joe Kurmaskie is the real deal and Momentum Is Your Friend is true to the man himself. Intimate, ironic, worldly, wise, and most of all, fun. It reads like a wild, downhill ride with lots of switchbacks, hanging on for dear life and enjoying every bump. Read it.”＜br＞ ーRobert Ferrigno, author of ＜em＞Prayers for the Assassin ＜/em＞and ＜em＞Horse Latitudes＜/em＞＜br＞ ＜br＞ “As Melville is to the sea, Mark Twain to the raft, and Kerouac to the car, Joe Kurmaskie is to the bike. It is the great gift of Momentum Is Your Friend to follow that essentially American, writerly imperative: to go, to go, to go! An absolutely gobsmacking beauty of a book.”＜br＞ ーAndrew Lewis Conn, Author of ＜em＞P ＜/em＞and ＜em＞The Last American Novel＜/em＞＜br＞ ＜br＞ “Joe Kurmaskie is a supercharged storyteller for the new millennium, and I would cross the desert sands and climb the Rockies to listen to him tell his tale.” ーJay Atkinson, author of ＜em＞Caveman Politics, Ice Time, Legends of Winter Hill, ＜/em＞and ＜em＞City in Amber＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Peter Pan adventures, James M. Barrie【電子書籍】[ James M. Barrie ]

＜p＞Sir James Matthew Barrie, (1860 ? 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this ebook:＜/p＞ ＜p＞Peter Pan, 1904)＜/p＞ ＜p＞Peter and Wendy, 1904＜/p＞ ＜p＞Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 1902＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Little White Bird, 1902＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Admirable Crichton, 1902＜/p＞ ＜p＞Courage, 1922＜/p＞ ＜p＞Echoes of the War, 1918＜/p＞ ＜p＞Quality Street, 1901＜/p＞ ＜p＞What Every Woman Knows, 1908＜/p＞ ＜p＞A Window in Thrums, 1889＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Little Minister, 1881＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sentimental Tommy, 1896＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dear Brutus, 1917＜/p＞ ＜p＞Alice Sit-By-The-Fire, 1905＜/p＞ ＜p＞Auld Licht Idylls, 1888＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tommy and Grizel, 1900＜/p＞ ＜p＞When a Man's Single, 1888＜/p＞ ＜p＞Better Dead, 1888＜/p＞ ＜p＞A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches, 1882＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Der Tag", 1914＜/p＞ ＜p＞An Edinburgh Eleven, 1924＜/p＞ ＜p＞Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey, 1912＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Wanted: Fairy Godmother【電子書籍】[ Laurie LeClair ]

＜p＞“Fun to read and hard to put down!” Audrey Boles＜/p＞ ＜p＞Can a cowboy with a gypsy soul accept the love he’s always needed but never knew he wanted? And can a fairy godmother wave her magic wand and get the family and home she’s always longed for?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bull rider Jake Lassiter unexpectedly finds himself the sole guardian to his three teenaged cousins, and it’s a disaster. So far they’ve let his prized bull out and nearly got them all killed, blasted a hole in the shed roof, and turned his quiet orderly ranch into a chaotic deathtrap. He needs to rid them of their city ways and teach them how to survive on a Montana ranch or they are all going to end up dead. At the end of his rope, Jake places an ad for someone with some magic to transform the boys.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Longing for roots and a place to settle down, Callie Jean Andrews is back in the only place she calls home, her late grandfather’s small hometown. However, things aren’t working out for this professional child wrangler. She’s without a job, has no place to stay, and her money supply is dwindling fast. So when she sees the unorthodox ad in the county newspaper, she applies, keeping her fingers crossed all will work out.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jake and Callie discover they’re fighting a powerful attraction to each other, torn over what to do about it, and at odds over what the boys want and need, especially after the boys get it in their heads that Jake and Callie as a couple would be the best solution for all of them...＜/p＞ ＜p＞If you love heartfelt romantic comedies then you'll love Laurie LeClair's funny and touching Wanted: Fairy Godmother!＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Such a light wonderful book! Allows you to escape!” Grace Kelly＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Author is funny! The characters are cute and sassy!” reader review＜/p＞ ＜p＞Books by Laurie LeClair:＜br /＞ Once Upon A Romance Series: (romantic comedy)＜br /＞ If The Shoe Fits - Book 1＜br /＞ Waking Sleeping Beauty - Book 2＜br /＞ Taming McGruff - Book 3＜br /＞ The Reluctant Beauty - Book 4＜br /＞ Awakened By A Kiss - Book 5＜br /＞ Tangled At First Sight - Book 6＜br /＞ Finding Mr. Just Right - Book 7＜br /＞ Making A Splash - Book 8＜br /＞ Hoodwinked By A Wolfe - Book 9＜br /＞ Baking From The Hart - Book 10＜br /＞ Melting Her Heart - Book 11＜br /＞ Princess In Hiding - Book 12＜br /＞ Her Frog Prince - Book 13＜br /＞ Forget Me Not - Book 14＜br /＞ Three Wishes - Book 15＜br /＞ ***＜br /＞ A Very Charming Wedding (romantic comedy; Once Upon A Romance spin off series)＜br /＞ The Bachelor And The Bride - Book 1＜br /＞ The Boss And The Bride - Book 2＜br /＞ The Bodyguard And The Bride - Book 3＜br /＞ ***＜br /＞ The McCall Brothers Series (western, contemporary romance)＜br /＞ The Cowboy's Rebellious Bride - Book 1＜br /＞ The Cowboy's Renegade Bride - Book 2＜br /＞ The Cowboy's Runaway Bride - Book 3＜br /＞ The Cowboy's Christmas Bride - Book 4＜br /＞ ***＜br /＞ Tempted By A Texan Series (western, romantic comedy)＜br /＞ The Callahans - prequel＜br /＞ Travis - Book 1＜br /＞ Cassie - Book 2＜br /＞ ***＜br /＞ The Heart Romance Series: (contemporary romance)＜br /＞ Secrets Of The Heart - Book 1＜br /＞ Crimes Of The Heart - Book 2＜br /＞ Lies Of The Heart - Book 3＜br /＞ ***＜br /＞ The Bounty Hunter Series: (romantic suspense)＜br /＞ Murphy’s Law - Book 1＜br /＞ Riley's Rules - Book 2＜br /＞ ***＜br /＞ Wanted: Fairy Godmother (romantic comedy)＜br /＞ ***＜br /＞ The Sweet Spot Series: (romantic comedy)＜br /＞ The Dating Dilemma - Book 1＜br /＞ ***＜br /＞ Cupid Corners Series:＜br /＞ Dear Cupid - Book 1＜br /＞ ***＜br /＞ The Long Journey Home (contemporary fiction/romance)＜br /＞ ***＜br /＞ Runaway Wife (contemporary fiction/romance)＜br /＞ ***＜br /＞ Sweet Summertime (summer read, contemporary romance, contemporary fiction)＜br /＞ ***＜br /＞ An Angel Mountain Novel (contemporary fiction, contemporary romance)＜br /＞ The Heart Remembers - Book 1＜br /＞ The Gift Of Hope - Book 2＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Herland Trilogy【電子書籍】[ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ]

＜p＞Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy. The second book in the trilogy is her land mark classic Herland. Moving Mountain delivers Gilman's program for reforming society. She concentrates on measures of rationality and efficiency that could be instituted in her own time, largely with greater social cooperation - equal education and treatment for girls and boys, day-care centers for working women, and other issues still relevant a century later. Yet Gilman also allows for technological progress: electric power is the motive force in industry and urban society, power generated largely by the tides, wind-mills, water mills, and solar engines. Herland is a utopian novel written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. The story is told from the perspective of Van Jennings, a student of sociology who, along with two friends, Terry O. Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, forms an expedition party to explore an area of unchartered land where it is rumored lives a society consisting entirely of women. The three friends do not really believe the rumors as they are unable to conceive of how human reproduction could occur without males. The men speculate about what a society of women would be like, each guessing differently based on the stereotype of women which he holds most dear With Her in Ourland is the third book in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's utopian trilogy which begins where Moving the Mountain and Herland left off. Gilman masterfully compares our real modern male dominated world with an imaginary perfect society comprised of only woman. Gilman was a well known and deeply respected sociologist and this trilogy holds an important place in feminist fiction.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】James Barrie Complete Humorous Romance Fantasy Anthologies【電子書籍】[ James Barrie ]

＜p＞A Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.＜br /＞ He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Contents＜br /＞ Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens＜br /＞ The Admirable Crichton＜br /＞ The Little White Bird, or Adventures In Kensington Gardens＜br /＞ Alice Sit-By-The-Fire＜br /＞ My Lady Nicotine, A Study in Smoke＜br /＞ Echoes of the War＜br /＞ Quality Street, A Comedy＜br /＞ What Every Woman Knows＜br /＞ Courage＜br /＞ Dear Brutus＜br /＞ A Window in Thrums＜br /＞ Auld Licht Idylls＜br /＞ Margaret Ogilvy＜br /＞ The Little Minister＜br /＞ Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood＜br /＞ Tommy and Grizel＜br /＞ Peter and Wendy＜br /＞ Better Dead＜br /＞ When a Man's Single＜br /＞ "Der Tag"＜br /＞ A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches＜br /＞ Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey＜br /＞ An Edinburgh Eleven＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Little Minister-＜br /＞ This picturing of Scottish village life and characters is a delightful one. Gavin Dishart, untried and tremendously in earnest in his high calling, is given charge of the Auld Licht Manse in Thrumms, where he at once becomes the property of all the Kirk and village folk, subject at all times to their fond interference and severe criticism. His experiences are told with the mingling of quaint humor and delicate pathos which characterizes the author. The story of the Little Minister's manly love for and loyal holding to the Egyptian, a fascinating gipsy girl, who crosses his path, is a lovely glimpse of the power of a true man's love; and the awakening of thoughtless, untamed Babby to the deeper meaning of life through her love for Gavin is told with great tenderness and beauty. The plot is a strong one and is given with true dramatic power.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】River Legends, Or, Father Thames and Father Rhine【電子書籍】[ E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen ]

＜p＞I HAD been down to spend a summer's day at Eton. Dear old Eton! There is no place where a summer's day can be more happily spent, especially by those to whom the spot is hallowed by the memory of boyish days. The "playing-fields" are delightful, in spite of the passage through the same being a service of danger when cricket-balls whiz recklessly past your ear, and a courteous "thank you!" invites your hand to restore to its owner the engine which has nearly broken your head. "Poet's Walk" is charming, although its memories may not be entirely pleasant if you chance in your boyhood to have been "fag" to some "sixth-form" master whose tea you had to carry out to that pleasant resort. The "school-yard" also is not without its recommendations, though when one has attained the mature age of forty-five one feels rather as if one had no business there, standing among a crowd of fellows of a younger and happier age, the only idler among the number. On the particular day of which I speak, I had rambled about with those boys I knew, gathered as much pleasure as I could from the memories which clung around the precincts of the old college, and afterwards strolled out along the banks of the river in the direction of Surly. The weather being rather hot, although evening was approaching, I thought it well to halt in the immediate neighbourhood of Surly Hall, and having seated myself in the shadiest place I could find, began to think over the various "Fourths of June" and "Election Saturdays" which I had witnessed in that famous locality, until I not unnaturally fell fast asleep. I do not know how long I remained in this comfortable state, but I was suddenly aroused by the sound of voices, and immediately opened my eyes and looked around to discover the quarter from which they proceeded. It was not long before I was enlightened upon this point. Nearly opposite the spot upon which I had seated myself was a little island in the very middle of the river, dividing the water which flowed on each side of it and left it high and dry. This island was of no great size, and, I should imagine, of no great value either, being covered with reeds and willows, and apparently fit for nothing except to afford shelter to moor-hens and water-rats, which creatures probably found it an exceedingly convenient habitation. Upon the present occasion, however, beings of a different nature altogether appeared to have taken possession of the island. At a plain deal table were seated two ancient individuals of kingly and majestic mien. He who sat at the end of the table wore a white beard of mighty size, which streamed downward to his waist; whilst his companion, who sat at his right hand, and was of a dark and swarthy complexion, boasted but little beard, but made up for the deficiency by the size and length of the black appendages which adorned his upper lip. Each of these two kings (for such the crowns upon their heads betokened them to be, and the regal dignity of their general appearance gave further proof of their condition) grasped in his hand a tumbler which was apparently full of liquor more potent than the water which flowed around them, whilst a huge pewter pot (which constituted the only other furniture of their table) bore witness to the quarter from whence their potations had been supplied.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Bedouins【電子書籍】[ James Huneker ]

＜p＞That little girl down Boston way, who had mastered William James and Boris Sidis before she was in her teens, behaved badly one afternoon. Possibly it was the sultry weather, or growing painsーin the psychic sphere, of courseーor, perhaps, it may have been due to the reflexes from prolonged attention to the Freudian psycho-analysis and the significance of Twilight Sleep; but whatever the cause, that precocious child flew off her serene handle and literally “sassed” the entire household. The tantrum overーshe afterward described it as a uric-acid stormーand order reigning once more in Bach Bay, she was severely interrogated by her male parent as to the whys and wherefores of her singular deviation from accustomed glacial intellectual objectivity. Her answer was in the proper key: “My multiple personalities failed to co-ordinate. Hence the distressing lack of centripetal functioning.” She was immediately forgiven. Multiple personalities are to blame for much in this vale of tears; that is, if you are unlucky or lucky enough to be possessed of the seven devils of psychology. Mary Garden was, no doubt, a naughty little girl in her time. That she climbed trees, fought boys twice her size, stuck out her tongue at pious folk, scandalized her parents, and tore from the heads of nice girls handfuls of hair, I am sure. Hedda Gabler thus treated gentle Thea Elvstad in the play. But was this demon Mary aware of her multiple personalities? Of her complexes? Her art fusion is such perfect synthesis. Subconscious is nowadays an excuse for the Original Sin with which we are saddled by theologians. Well, one bad turn deserves another, and we may easily picture the wild Scottish thistle defiantly shrugging shoulders at law and order. She did not analyze her Will-to-Raise-Merry-Hell. No genius of her order ever does. There had been signs and omens. Her mother before her birth had dreamed wonderful dreams; dreamed and prayed that she might become a singer. But even maternal intuition could not have foreseen such a swan triumphantly swimming through the troubled waters of life. A swan, did I say? A condor, an eagle, a peacock, a nightingale, a panther, a society dame, a gallery of moving-pictures, a siren, an indomitable fighter, a human woman with a heart as big as a house, a lover of sport, an electric personality, and a canny Scotch lassie who can force from an operatic manager wails of anguish because of her close bargaining over a contract; in a word, a Superwoman. My dear friend and master, the late Remy de Gourmont, wrote that man differs from his fellow animalsーhe didn’t say “lower”ーbecause of the diversity of his aptitudes. Man is not the only organism that shows multiple personalities; even in plant life pigmentation and the power of developing new species prove that our vaunted superiorities are only relative. I may refer you to the experiments of Hugo de Vri?s at the Botanical Gardens, Amsterdam, where the grand old Dutch scientist presented me with sixteen-leaf clover naturally developed, and grown between sunset and dawn; also an evening primroseー?onthera Lamarckianaーwhich shoots into new flowers. Multiple personalities again. In the case of Mary Garden we call her artistic aptitudes “the gift of versatility.” All distinguished actresses have this serpent-like facility of shedding their skin and taking on a fresh one at will. She is Cleopatraーwith “serpent and scarab for sign”ーor M?lisande, Phryne, or Monna Vanna; as Tha?s she is both saint and courtesan, her Salome breeds horror; and in the simplicities of Jean the Juggler of Notre Dame a Mary Garden, hitherto submerged, appears: tender, boyish, sweet, fantastic; a ray of moonshine has entered his head and made of him an irresponsible yet irresistibly charming youth.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Works of Mary Louisa Molesworth【電子書籍】[ Mary Louisa Molesworth ]

＜p＞57 works of Mary Louisa Molesworth＜br /＞ English writer of children's stories (1839-1921)＜/p＞ ＜p＞This ebook presents a collection of 57 works of Mary Louisa Molesworth. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Table of Contents:＜br /＞ A Christmas Child＜br /＞ A Christmas Posy＜br /＞ An Enchanted Garden＜br /＞ Blanche＜br /＞ Carrots＜br /＞ Christmas Tree Land＜br /＞ Fairies Afield＜br /＞ Five Minutes' Stories＜br /＞ Four Ghost Stories＜br /＞ Four Winds Farm＜br /＞ Grandmother Dear＜br /＞ Great Uncle Hoot-Toot＜br /＞ Hathercourt＜br /＞ Hoodie＜br /＞ Imogen＜br /＞ Jasper＜br /＞ Lettice＜br /＞ Little Miss Peggy＜br /＞ Mary＜br /＞ Miss Mouse and Her Boys＜br /＞ My New Home＜br /＞ Not Quite True＜br /＞ Not without Thorns＜br /＞ Nurse Heatherdale's Story＜br /＞ Peterkin＜br /＞ Philippa＜br /＞ Robin Redbreast＜br /＞ Rosy＜br /＞ Silverthorns＜br /＞ Sweet Content＜br /＞ Tell Me a Story＜br /＞ That Girl in Black＜br /＞ The Adventures of Herr Baby＜br /＞ The Boys and I＜br /＞ The Carved Lions＜br /＞ The Children of the Castle＜br /＞ The Cuckoo Clock＜br /＞ The Girls and I＜br /＞ The Green Casket＜br /＞ The Grim House＜br /＞ The House That Grew＜br /＞ The Laurel Walk＜br /＞ The Little Old Portrait＜br /＞ The Magic Nuts＜br /＞ The Man with the Pan Pipes＜br /＞ The Old Pincushion＜br /＞ The Oriel Window＜br /＞ The Palace in the Garden＜br /＞ The Rectory Children＜br /＞ The Tapestry Room＜br /＞ The Third Miss St Quentin＜br /＞ The Thirteen Little Black Pigs＜br /＞ The Wood-Pigeons and Mary＜br /＞ Two Little Waifs＜br /＞ Uncanny Tales＜br /＞ Us＜br /＞ White Turrets＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Boy Runners and the Deargbeith?och【電子書籍】[ Gil Hardwick ]

＜p＞In this young adult neopagan supernatural fantasy rewrite of Edmund Spenser’s Elizabethan poem 'The Faerie Queene', nine young Irish boys in 11th Century Leinster were made precocious through elven magic, and trained as message runners.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Six of the boys were captured as pixies and held in iron cages to be tormented and tortured to death by a ravaging crowd driven to frenzy by a fey terror, leaving three survivors to recapture the blatant Deargbeith?och, the Dread Beast of 1,000 tongues.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Not all goes to plan. They keep making mistakes. If they fail in their sworn task they are doomed to eternal servitude to the fell sprite Oilill Sceolan, known as Al-il, errant page to Artegal and Caelia, high king and queen of the ancient Tuatha D? Danann, in their throne room beneath the great towering rock, S?dhe Creig.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Why Does Santa Ride Around in a Sleigh? . . . and Other Christmas Questions【電子書籍】[ Kay Woodward ]

＜p＞A cool Christmas-themed book for girls and boys that explains the reasons for and the stories behind our festive celebrations and traditions. Why does Father Christmas have three different names? Was there ever really a Good King Wenceslas? Why do we eat mince pies? These questions and many more are answered along with a fun make-and-do Christmas activity. Entertaining and informative, the book is illustrated throughout in black and white.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】school yard mystery【電子書籍】[ indranil das ]

＜p＞SCHOOL YARD MYSTERY＜br /＞ [YOUR WORST SECRET IS REVEALED…]＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hi I am Lisa, a high school student of Newtown. Well, I am not a very good girl, in fact bad, but I like at what I am. When I walk, boys often whistle at me or pat my carved back, but you know, I never mind, rather I feel good because in a way, it is a complement for my sizzling body for what they fantasy night long.＜br /＞ Yesterday when I was enjoying one of my favorite hobbies [making fight of two dulls for my kiss] at the school backyard, my friend Emma came running. She is my best friend but frankly saying, she is a stupid bitch.＜br /＞ I could never make her understand, that boys want only one thing and that is sex. For instance, we girls always see the face, heart and dress but if it is a boy, he will just see what is behind the dress. You know they take everything in a non-veg way. Actually, boys have a fantastic power of imagination, you need not to drop your cloth, they can see it, even in close eye. To impress a boy, you may use lip-stick, fashionable dress or nice ear ring, but remember they will first see your pair and then the rest!＜br /＞ You know, my friend Emma always chases for love, but love is not an animal to be chased and caught; it is an invisible game of fate which would make you chase and caught.＜br /＞ To me, love is like a TV channel, more you see, more involved you are; so, better avoid it.＜br /＞ I have always seen Emma worrying for a good look but you know beauty is not in face, it is always in heart. Of course, pink red pimple on her cheek is not good for a girl but if it is true love, the lover will never worry the mark. Well I think-＜br /＞ Look matters until you are in love, but at the moment you really fall in love, look does not matter at all; and it blooms your look.＜br /＞ But strange, people are more worried about the first.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Yesterday After the school, she came running and whispered me ‘Hey, Liz today I am going there, please manage a little.’＜br /＞ Oh! This is the thing that I really hate.＜br /＞ She would go for a couple of hour, enjoy the ‘love-pain’ with pills and then be back with a new trouble which will emerge after nine months nine days. It is suck, really suck. ‘Why girls have all the trouble?’＜br /＞ However, I said, ‘Ok, go but don’t forget to take rubber, otherwise it will be like the last time.’ She gave a naughty smile, showed me the packet biting her red thick lip and went running with her waiting boy friend. I really like her, but she would never feel her own value.’＜/p＞ ＜p＞But why, why is she getting late today? She should have arrived now. Oh, she is coming…＜br /＞ ‘Hey Liz, I am here!’ She comes in quick step.＜br /＞ ‘You are late. I have been waiting here for last the ten minutes.’ Hugging ‘sorry, sorry, sorry dear, I got late, I slept like dead.’＜br /＞ ‘Ok, don’t oil, let’s go.’＜br /＞ They begin to walk. Lisa asks ‘By the way, how was it?＜br /＞ ‘What!’ says Emma, giving a queer look.＜br /＞ What!!! Liza raises brows.＜br /＞ Emma hastily answers ‘Oh that,..ya,.. I suppose …it was good.’＜br /＞ What? Suppose!＜br /＞ ‘Well... I really can not recall… It is hazy’＜br /＞ ‘You bitch, you got fu***ed some hours ago and can not recall! Is it a joke! Or what!’ Lisa says angrily.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】FearMaker: Family Matters【電子書籍】[ Terry Castle ]

＜p＞Twelve-year-old Adam Castle lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills. But for him, life is just like any other ordinary twelve-year-old. That is, until he mistakenly overhears the unsavory truth about his father. Dear old Dad is a homicidal maniac and lovely Mom is his beautiful accomplice.＜/p＞ ＜p＞To make matters worse, Adam overhears a sweet little conversation where he learns that his dad's next victim will be one of his favorite classmates, Jennifer Isles. Jen is the first girl Adam has ever really liked, I mean got-caught-staring-at-her-more-than-once liked. And his father has plans to kidnap her and bury her alive until a ransom is paid. It seems that Jen's pretty little head will be whacked off by his loving father, if Mr. and Mrs. Isles don't go along with his Dad's maniacal plan.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Adam's ordinary life just took on a demented twist as he steps into the wonderful world of the macabre.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Together with his best friend Julian, the two boys know they have but one choice. They must stop the murder from happening.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As they race against time and evil forces, Julian and Adam embark on a murder mystery tour of Los Angeles that would make Edgar Allen Poe shake with terror.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The final bit of proof the two sleuths need lies in the bottom of an empty grave at Forever Hollywood Cemetery. Is Adam brave enough to climb into the empty abyss of death and claim the evidence they need to stop his father forever? If he is that brave, what will happen when he descends into the desperate pit of fear?＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is a tale so bizarre that it proves that truth is stranger than fiction. It could only have been written by a grown-up kid who grew up in world of horror, in a big house in Beverly Hills, with a real-life dad who made his living scaring the wits out of innocent souls.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable【電子書籍】[ Jean S. Remy ]

＜p＞Way down in Vir-gin-i-a, near a small creek, called Bridg-es Creek, there is a shaft of white stone;ーon it is the name of George Wash-ing-ton and the date of his birth: Feb-ru-ar-y 22d, 1732. On this spot once stood the big brick house in which George Wash-ing-ton was born; it was built in 1657 by John Wash-ing-ton; his grand-son, Au-gus-tine, was the fa-ther of the lit-tle boy who be-came our first pres-i-dent. The moth-er of George Wash-ing-ton was Ma-ry Ball; so sweet and fair was she, when she was a young girl, that she was known as "Sweet Mol-ly." Now she was not the first wife of Au-gus-tine Wash-ing-ton; and he had two boys, Law-rence and Au-gus-tine, when he made her his wife. These boys were so kind to their small broth-er George, when he was young, and gave him so much help, all through his life, that their names should stay in your minds. When George was three years old his home was burned to the ground, and his fa-ther built a fine new house, just o-ver the riv-er from where the cit-y of Fred-er-icks-burg now stands. Here George went to his first school, and the name of the man who taught him was so queer, it will not go out of your mind;ーit was "Hob-by." In those old days, the boys wrote to their boy-friends, just as they do at this day. See what George, when he was nine years old, wrote to his best friend, Rich-ard Hen-ry Lee:ー"Dear Dick-ey, I thank you ver-y much for the pret-ty pic-ture book you gave me. Sam asked me to show him the pic-tures and I showed him all the pic-tures in it; and I read to him how the tame el-e-phant took care of his mas-ter's lit-tle boy, and put him on his back and would not let an-y-bod-y touch his mas-ter's lit-tle son. I can read three or four pages some-times with-out miss-ing a word. Ma says I may go to see you and stay all day with you next week if it be not rain-y. She says I may ride my po-ny. He-ro, if Uncle Ben will go with me and lead He-ro. I have a lit-tle piece of po-et-ry a-bout you gave me, but I mustn't tell you who wrote the po-et-ry. "G. W.'s com-pli-ments to R. H. L. And likes his book full well. Hence-forth will count him as his friend, And hopes ma-ny hap-py days he may spend. "Your good friend, "George Wash-ing-ton." "I am go-ing to get a whip top soon, and you may see and whip it＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】THE HEART OF PINOCCHIO New Adventures of the Celebrated Little Puppet【電子書籍】[ COLLODI NIPOTE (Paolo Lorenzini) ]

＜p＞ Dear Boys and Girls,ーLet us hope that none of you has been so unfortunate as to have missed the pleasure of watching sometime or other a puppet show. Probably Punch and Judy is the one you know best, but there are many others with jolly little fellows who dance in and out of all sorts of adventures. So you can imagine Pinocchio, the hero of this book, as one of those lively puppets. And, in case you have never read the earlier book about him, you will want to know something of what happened to him before you meet him in these pages.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Adventures Among the Red Indians: Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America【電子書籍】[ H. W. G. Hyrst ]

＜p＞In submitting this little book the author does not attempt to edit a history of the rebellion, nor does he assume to be correct in the date of events to a day. He does not hope or expect to make a hero of himself by writing it, for he was far from doing anything heroic, believing, as he does, that most of the heroes of the war were killed. Perhaps the WRITING of this book may stamp him a hero, and for his audacity in so doing some one may kill him. But he intends to clothe his little work in homely, rugged, commonplace language. Not striving to make it a work of literary merit, only a truthful account of an unimportant career and experience in the army. It may, perhaps, be interesting to some of his comrades, who recollect the incidents or recall similar events that happened to themselves, and thereby serve the purpose of introducing one of the youngest soldiers and a comrade of that greatest and most noble of all organizations, the Grand Army of the Republic. The Memorable Bombardment of Fort Sumter. BOMBARDMENT of Fort Sumter. This was the beginning and the first sound of actual war which inspired me, and kindled the fire of patriotism in my youthful breast. The little spark lay smoldering for two long years, ’till at last it burst forth into a full blaze. When Fort Sumter was bombarded, I was a midget of a boy; a barefooted, ragged newsboy in the city of New York. The bombardment was threatened for several weeks before it actually occurred; and many nights I would have been bankrupted, but that everyone was on the “qui vive” for the event, and I got myself into lots of trouble by shouting occasionally, “Fort Sumter Bombarded!” I needed money; it sold my papers, and I forgave myself. When the authentic news did come, I think it stirred up within me as big a piece of fighting desire as it did in larger and older people. I mourned the fact that I was then too small to fight, but lived in hopes that the war would last until I should grow. If I could have gone south, I felt that I could have conquered the rebellious faction alone, so confident was I of my fighting abilities. In the fall of ’61 my dear mOther died, and my father who had a great desire to make possibilities out of improbabilities, and believing a farm the proper place to bring up a family of boys, bought one away in the interior of Maine. The farm was very hilly, covered with huge pines and liberally planted with granite ledges. I used to think God wanted to be generous to this state and gave it so much land it had to be stood up edgeways. Picture to yourself, dear reader, four boys taken from the busy life of a great city, place them in the wilderness of Maine, where they had to make a winrow of the forest to secure a garden spot for the house, pry out the stumps and blast the ledges to sow the seed, then ask yourself what should the harvest be＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Hero Tales of the Far North【電子書籍】[ Jacob August Riis ]

＜p＞The Eighteenth Century broke upon a noisy family quarrel in the north of Europe. Charles the Twelfth of Sweden, the royal hotspur of all history, and Frederik of Denmark had fallen out. Like their people, they were first cousins, and therefore all the more bent on settling the old question which was the better man. After the fashion of the lion and the unicorn, they fought "all about the town," and, indeed, about every town that came in their way, now this and now that side having the best of it. On the sea, which was the more important because neither Swedes nor Danes could reach their fighting ground or keep up their armaments without command of the waterways, the victory rested finally with the Danes. And this was due almost wholly to one extraordinary figure, the like of which is scarce to be found in the annals of warfare, Peder Tordenskjold. Rising in ten brief years from the humblest place before the mast, a half-grown lad, to the rank of admiral, ennobled by his King and the idol of two nations, only to be assassinated on the "field of honor" at thirty, he seems the very incarnation of the stormy times of the Eleven Years' War, with which his sun rose and set; for the year in which peace was made also saw his death. Peder Jansen Wessel was born on October 28, 1690, in the city of Trondhjem, Norway, which country in those days was united with Denmark under one king. His father was an alderman with eighteen children. Peder was the tenth of twelve wild boys. It is related that the father in sheer desperation once let make for him a pair of leathern breeches which he would not be able to tear. But the lad, not to be beaten so easily, sat on a grind-stone and had one of his school-fellows turn it till the seat was worn thin, a piece of bravado that probably cost him dear, for doubtless the exasperated father's stick found the attenuated spot. Since he would have none of the school, his father had him apprenticed out to a tailor with the injunction not to spare the rod. But sitting cross-legged on a tailor's stool did not suit the lad, and he took it out of his master by snowballing him thoroughly one winter's day. Next a barber undertook to teach him his trade; but Peder ran away and was drifting about the streets when the King came to Norway. The boy saw the splendid uniforms and heard the story of the beautiful capital by the ?resund, with its palaces and great fighting ships. When the King departed, he was missing, and for a while there was peace in Trondhjem. Down in Copenhagen the homeless lad was found wandering about by the King's chaplain, who, being himself a Norwegian, took him home and made him a household page. But the boy's wanderings had led him to the navy-yard, where he saw mid-shipmen of his own size at drill, and he could think of nothing else. When he should have been waiting at table he was down among the ships. For him there was ever but one way to any goal, the straight cut, and at fifteen he wrote to the King asking to be appointed a midshipman. "I am wearing away my life as a servant," he wrote. "I want to give it, and my blood, to the service of your Majesty, and I will serve you with all my might while I live!"＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Bondwoman【電子書籍】[ Marah Ellis Ryan ]

＜p＞Near Moret, in France, where the Seine is formed and flows northward, there lives an old lady named Madame Blanc, who can tell much of the history written herethough it be a history belonging more to American lives than French. She was of the Caron establishment when Judithe first came into the family, and has charge of a home for aged ladies of education and refinement whose means will not allow of them providing for themselves. It is a memorial founded by her adopted daughter and is known as the Levigne Pension. The property on which it is established is the little Levigne estatethe one forming the only dowery of Judithe Levigne when she married Philip AlainMarquis de Caron. There is also a bright-eyed, still handsome woman of mature years, who lives in our South and has charge of another memorialor had until recentlya private industrial school for girls of her own selection. She calls herself a creole of San Domingo, and she also calls herself Madame Trouvelotshe has been married twice since she was first known by that name, for she was never the woman to live alonenot she; but while the men in themselves suited her, their names were uncompromisingly plaindid not attract her at all. She married them, proved a very good wife, but while one was named Johnson, and another Tuttle, the good wife persisted in being called Madame Trouvelot, either through sentiment or a bit of irony towards the owner of that name. But, despite her vanities, her coquetries, and certain erratic phases of her life, she was absolutely faithful to the trust reposed in her by the Marquise; and who so capable as herself of finding the poor girls who stood most in need of training and the shelter of charity? She, also, could add to this history of the woman belonging both to the old world and the new. There are also official records in evidence of much that is told heredeeds of land, bills of sale, with dates of marriages and deaths interwoven, changed as to names and places butThere are social friendsgay, pleasure-loving people on both sides of the waterwho could speak, and some men who will never forget her. One of them, Kenneth McVeigh, he was only Lieutenant McVeigh then!saw her first in Parisheard of her first at a musicale in the salon of Madame Choudey. Madame Choudey was the dear friend of the Countess Helene Biron, who still lives and delights in recitals of gossip belonging to the days of the Second Empire. The Countess Helene and Mrs. McVeigh had been school friends in Paris. Mrs. McVeigh had been Claire Villanenne, of New Orleans, in those days. At seventeen she had married a Col. McVeigh, of Carolina. At forty she had been a widow ten years. Was the mOther of a daughter aged twelve, and a six-foot son of twenty-two, who looked twenty-five, and had just graduated from West Point. As he became of special interest to more than one person in this story, it will be in place to give an idea of him as he appeared in those early days;an impetuous boy held in check, somewhat, by military discipline and his heighthe measured six feet at twentyand also by the fact that his mOther had persisted in looking on him as the head of the family at an age when most boys are care-free of such responsibilities＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】CIPHER : A Romance. “Like a 0, which means much or nothing, as you use it.”【電子書籍】[ JANE G. AUSTIN ]

＜p＞My Dear L:＜br /＞ Do you remember standing with me upon the bridge, and tossing chip boats into the river, and how eagerly we watched to see which should drift ashore, or wreck themselves against the stone pier, or remain idle and motionless in the eddy pool, and which should glide safely through the arch and down the smooth stream beyond?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Come, now, and help me launch another venture, the little craft＜br /＞ called “Cipher,” whose construction you have watched with such＜br /＞ ready sympathy and interest, and to whose freight you have so＜br /＞ largely contributed. What is to be its fate? Will it be stranded,＜br /＞ or shattered, or left idly in the pool, or run down by heavier craft,＜br /＞ or sunk by the missiles of those wicked boys upon the other bank?＜br /＞ Shall we call to the boys and deprecate their attack by a confession that our little boat is not an iron-clad war vessel, much less our final idea of an elegant yacht, and that even for a chip boat she has been almost spoiled by over-whittling? No, never mind the boys; let us say nothing at all to them, but, standing hand in hand, watch together the fortunes of our little craft, thanking God that, should she sink or should she swim, she does not carry our lives or our happiness with her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞J. G. A.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Adventurer【電子書籍】[ Cyril M. Kornbluth ]

＜p＞THE EARLY DAYS In a general way, I cannot remember that our life as boys differed in any essential from that of Other boys. My brother went to the Episcopal Academy and his weekly report never failed to fill the whole house with an impenetrable gloom and ever-increasing fears as to the possibilities of his future. At school and at college Richard was, to say the least, an indifferent student. And what made this undeniable fact so annoying, particularly to his teachers, was that morally he stood so very high. To "crib," to lie, or in any way to cheat or to do any unworthy act was, I believe, quite beyond his understanding. Therefore, while his constant lack of interest in his studies goaded his teachers to despair, when it came to a question of stamping out wrongdoing on the part of the student body he was invariably found aligned on the side of the faculty. Not that Richard in any way resembled a prig or was even, so far as I know, ever so considered by the most reprehensible of his fellow students. He was altogether too red-blooded for that, and I believe the students whom he antagonized rather admired his chivalric point of honor even if they failed to imitate it. As a schoolboy he was aggressive, radical, outspoken, fearless, usually of the opposition and, indeed, often the sole member of his own party. Among the students at the several schools he attended he had but few intimate friends; but of the various little groups of which he happened to be a member his aggressiveness and his imagination usually made him the leader. As far back as I can remember, Richard was always starting somethingーusually a new club or a violent reform movement. And in school or college, as in all the Other walks of life, the reformer must, of necessity, lead a somewhat tempestuous, if happy, existence. The following letter, written to his father when Richard was a student at Swarthmore, and about fifteen, will give an idea of his conception of the ethics in the case: SWARTHMOREー1880. DEAR PAPA: I am quite on the Potomac. I with all the boys at our table were called up, there is seven of us, before Prex. for stealing sugar-bowls and things off the table. All the youths said, "O President, I didn't do it." When it came my turn I merely smiled gravely, and he passed on to the last. Then he said, "The only boy that doesn't deny it is Davis. Davis, you are excused. I wish to talk to the rest of them." That all goes to show he can be a gentleman if he would only try. I am a natural born philosopher so I thought this idea is too idiotic for me to converse about so I recommend silence and I also argued that to deny you must necessarily be accused and to be accused of stealing would of course cause me to bid Prex. good-by, so the only way was, taking these two considerations with each Other, to deny nothing but let the good-natured old duffer see how silly it was by retaining a placid silence and so crushing his base but thoughtless behavior and machinations. DICK＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。